MA Rothman notes: An incumbent who can’t crack 45% in his own reelection bid is in trouble, and new numbers out of Minnesota show Attorney General Keith Ellison is in exactly that position.
A KSTP/SurveyUSA poll released this week has Ellison in a 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐝-𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝟒𝟑-𝟒𝟑 𝐭𝐢𝐞 with Republican challenger Ron Schutz, with 15% of voters still undecided. Two weeks ago, Ellison led the same matchup by eight points.
Sometimes it’s hard for the average voter to tell just how effective an elected official is in advancing the interests of his constituency. Darline Graham-Nordone tried to minimize Norman at the recent debate. However, when some of Washington’s most aggressive subsidy seekers make him a top political target, you know he must be doing something right.
On Tuesday night there was debate between Ralph Norman and Dorline Graham Nordone. These are the two people who are running in the special primary in South Carolina on August 25th to replace Lindsey Graham. Ralph Norman is the House rep from District 5. Dorline Graham Nordone is Lindsey Graham’s sister who was appointed by Governor McMaster to fill out the remainder of Lindsey’s term.
Welcome to the most magical place on earth, Williamsport. Today begins play in the 2026 Little League World Series. 20 teams from around the world are in Williamsport, Pennsylvania to compete for this year’s championship. The regionals were great. But you have to understand the regionals aren’t even a blip on the screen to what the LLWS is.
Today when they open the gates, thousands and thousands of people from all over the country and, in fact, from around the world will be flooding in. There will be a steady stream of humanity, maybe 15,000 a day showing up there. This year Pennsylvania made it. When they play, watch out for how big the crowd could be.
Due to the unfortunate death of Lindsey Graham, there is an open election for his seat this year. After an emergency primary, Ralph Norman, the current House District 5 rep, and Darline Nordone, Lindsey Graham’s sister have emerged as the top two candidates to represent the Republican Party. The runoff will take place on August 25th.
Promethean Action takes a look at the latest developments in the Middle East.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says the U.S. is escalating economic isolation measures against Iran and forecasts the Strait of Hormuz will become “irrelevant” within two years. Meanwhile Energy Secretary Chris Wright argues shipping continues under escorts and rerouting, citing 8–9 million barrels/day still moving through the strait plus 6 million diverted via expanding pipelines. This statement puts the lie to Big Media’s claims about what is going on over there.
The fearmongers said oil prices would hit $200/barrel when the Iran war started. How accurate were those predictions? Everyone knows that $200/barrel did not happen. How close did we come? $180? Nope. $160. Nope. How about $140? Not even close. The top price for oil was just over $112/barrel. That was in early April. Currently it hovers around $80/barrel. It should continue to gradually decrease.
If one thing has been clear since the beginning of Trump’s second term, it is that he prefers bilateral trade deals. America has negotiated many such deals in the last year and a half. Somehow the Canadian trade officials have missed this. The only reason we have a trilateral trade deal in USMCA is that Nancy Pelosi would not allow a bilateral deal with Mexico to go forward.
The Canadians are now threatening to leave the USMCA trade talks if Trump triggers 50% tariffs. How is threatening something that benefits the Trump administration a good strategy? Let’s be reminded that the Trump administration has already triggered the sunset provisions of the USMCA deal.
Ken Blackwell has published a piece on how the Biden administration gutted the HHS office that was responsible for overseeing the $2.2 trillion a year in taxpayer-funded health care payments. Health and Human Services processes about 4 million payment transactions a day across 50 states and five territories. When Xavier Becerra took over the department under the Biden administration, 80 people were assigned to program integrity. Becerra moved 76 of them out. This opened the floodgates for fraud.
With the release this week of TWA800: The Full Story—A Navy Whistleblower Comes Forward, filmmaker Brian Lerch has shown the power of AI to penetrate the shroud of secrecy around the July 17, 1996 destruction of flight TWA 800.
Central to Lerch’s documentary is the testimony of Navy vet, William Teele. Teele’s account of the events of that day were included in Jack Cashill’s 2016 book TWA 800: The Crash, The Cover-up, The Conspiracy.
However, a few paragraphs in a book does not do justice to Teele’s testimony. Lerch dramatized Teele’s 15-minute narration by recreating the environment in which Teele operated. In the first 45 minutes of the video Lerch also laid out the details of the investigation into the crash, including its many failings. ...
Now some may argue otherwise with this premise. However, a healthy discussion of various aspects of socialism should produce something of value. Discussions of socialism often find themselves discussing Ayn Rand and her views.